Manisha Koirala: Cancer came into my life as a gift

Actor Manisha Koirala, who won a tough battle against ovarian cancer, feels the disease came into her life as a gift as her vision is now sharper, mind clearer and her perspective realigned. As she completes six years of being cancer-free, she shares her story – one marked by apprehensions, disap- New Life, she talks about pointments and uncer- her treatment in the US tainties – and the lessons and the care provided by she learnt along the the oncologists there to way. how she rebuilt her life In her memoir Healed: once she returned home. How Cancer Gave Me a Manisha says her book is a result of intense soul-searching and she has plunged deep into the dark, bottomless pit of painful memories and woven a story out of them.